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He who integrates is lost.

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Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.
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The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject
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Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.
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The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man is in control of this totality. The desire of the essay, though, is not to filter the eternal out of the transitory it wants, rather, to make the transitory eternal.
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